There has always been a deep demarcation line within politics, mass-media and our intellectual arena, that is of left and right ideology. All kind of debate and deliberation, logic and conceptualizations have either a place in left coetry of ideology or in a right coetry of ideology. Even in popular social sites like facebook, we find there has been emergence of a strong faction of both ideologies. This demarcation line has become more pronounced now after the victory of right wing ABVP in DUSU elections and left wing AISA in JNUSU elections.
Before talking about these ideologies I would like to first express this view that both this prevalent ideologies of left and right, which is also known as socialist and capitalist ideology; basically these are just opposed to the fundamental stream of ideas which actually destroys the legitimacy, utility, concern, logic and scientific features of any core ideology. To me, the ideology is such kind of thing, which can act for the perfect making of the system comprising human beings, society, nation, world and the whole ecology, where there is no presence of either partiality or biasness or prejudice or any kind of conceptual knots.
To the extent what I know, left or say the communism ideology basically was a political-economic ideology, borned out of an circumstantial environment, full of exploitation and struggle which latter on cemented its place over the ideological ground of the world.
During the18th &19th century the arrival of industrial revolution in Europe enabled the consolidation of the fifth factor of production, the enterpreneur class over the laborer class. The growing dominace of entrepreneur class over the laborers was same what it used to be seen in the activities of aristocrat class over the landless laborers class.
First Angles, then Marx followed by Lenin, the series of efforts enabled the great ideology of communism. The arrival of this ideology gave a great jolt to the existing capitalist ideology, particularly in Europe. The fundamentally this ideology which was related with economocs, actually set the tone of even the political ideology of the many countries. This ideology affected even the societies, literature, art and media in the many parts of the world. It consequently the capitalism led countries brought many more measures of labour welfare laws in their system. The champion of capitalist system, America which also listened the music of an extreme form of capitialism in terms of great depression of 1929. The great depression of 1929 was suppressed through new deal policy introduced by President Roosvelt. The new deal policy was actually a bunch of socialist measures which allowed US administratio to incur a huge amount of public investment in its economy and ultimately US managed its great depression.
Thus,in the contemporary arena, the out of control capitalist ideology ultimately came under the control and finally it got euqulibrium by the ideological stroke of communism. On the othe side, the ideology of communism which enabled formations of many government in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world, it completed its first phase very strenuously, but in the second phase it started its own set of exploitation. For example in the name of government control the bureaucracy emerged to be an ugly face of the system. In the name of labour welfare there came a culture of strikes and lockouts. In the name of dictatorship of proletriates, the democracy was being opposed. In the name of class struggle the political opponents were targeted by the ruling regimes and last but not the least, the human rights were strongly violated.
In this historical chronology, we witnessed that how both of the ideologies of left and right worked as a rival to each other and they limited themselves in their cotre of ideology and keeping out of the broad spectrum of the things and worked in an incomplete and imperfect manner. It is to be noted here that both of these ideologies were representing not only their political line, rather they were representing their identical economic, social, cultural, administrative, international line of ideas also. This is the reason these both ideologies consolidated their postion on social, political and international level.
On the basis of a neutral intellectual analysis, we also saw that how the left of today leaving aside the humanitarian ideology of struggle and exploitation and get involved in strengthen its faction, which were either based over its vote bank politics or over biased and illogical commitment to their ideology. The today's communism is more lenient to the cause of organized work force in comparison to unorganized one. As of now they were of the view that capitalist are the class enemy. So they never understood this point that in our system, condition of a small entrepreneur is even worse than an employee of a big company. They can not understand this fact that interest of a white collar employee and a blue collar employee can not be the same. These people condemn the instances of Hindu communalism, but they keep mum over the communalism of Islam which in fact is bigger form of communalism and has taken even a global shape. This perversion in their ideology is nothing rather it is their votebankism on the domestic front and if they endorsed the aggressor attitude of country like China who captured the land territory of India as well as it grabbed the Budhist Tibet. It is nothing rather it is their joining to the existing factionalism of international politics. That is why we still see in the communist ambience, the neo enterpreneurs are seen in a suspicion manner and neo burgeois corrupt bureaucrat are taken in respectful manner. It is equally true that in its rival ideology capitalism also, which has rather gone on the path of escapism.
The way in first half of twentieth century, the communism have had a moral victory over the ideology of capitalism, the same way at the fag end of twentieth century the capitalism got its moral victory over communism. We saw in the last decade of the 20th century, the USSR was deorganised, China had a major shift in its policy regimes and many socialist countries of the world have a bitter experience of fiasco of their socialist policies.
The matter of the fact is that these both ideologies have extreme kind of nature. They both can not provide good to the human untill unless they become ready to invite adequate and required changes in their attitude in time related, era related and country related manner. These both ideologies have a common conception of this that only adoption of extreme stance could market their forums and organizations, could conquer space and time in mass media and could picturize a clear demarcation line in the vote bank societies.
Perhaps we forget this point that composition of any ideology and its institutional outcome is not to be full proof for ever ; it require a complete overhauling and cleansing in it. The revolution for any new establishment necessitates further pro revolution after some passage of time. Apart from the politics and economy, the institution which was affected most by these both ideologies that was the institution of Religion. The prime propounder of communist ideology and intellectual giant of his contemporary arena, Karl Marx termed Religion, as an addiction of opium. In a way his statement was a big attack over the several blind deeds of some organized religions, but ultimately this attack brought a deep demarcation line between theist and atheist all over the world.
I am always of the view that religion and God, both is the seprate thing. Concept of God is just an evergoing search for the omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent force which rule the both conscious and unconscious universe, whereas religion (in organized form) was just like a shop created by some clever people who wanted to make a cloisture and so they got engaged in making followers same in a way political parties do this in order to increase their follower and members. What the Christian and Islam religions are doing right now all over the world; they are marketing their religions. In this game God is also being included, the worship sytem is also being included; the philosophy of life and death all are there.
We are of the view, following of a religion is a private affair and for the public domain, secularism is the best policy, which keeps the governance aloof from the controversial religious and its faith issue. But both these ideologies have converted secularism, in fact a tool of identiy based democratic politics. Actually in the debate of left vs. Right, we do not want to create a controversy of ideologies, rather we want to fully affirm this view that any ideology is not made for ever, it always require review and reformulation. It must always have a scope of self introspection, overt expression and its reasonability. We have witnessed the huge crisis and fiasco emerged out of left oriented polity, economy, society and culture and so on and in the same way we have also viewed the naked exposition of capitalism on various front from time to time. But these both extreme ideologies never accept and invite open minded approaches.
It is only the centrist approach which is an ultimate way to get a balance, conscient and middle point, which could always accept all good and always reject all bad, which is the best way for any ideology to work. This was the way which compelled Lord Budha to proceed on centrist path. He listned a clich from a lady that do not keep the cord of Veena loose, so that it can not create sound and do not keep its cord so tight, so that it get broken out. So the middle way is the best way. The long sustainability of the world solely depend on this ideological path, the middle path.
Before talking about these ideologies I would like to first express this view that both this prevalent ideologies of left and right, which is also known as socialist and capitalist ideology; basically these are just opposed to the fundamental stream of ideas which actually destroys the legitimacy, utility, concern, logic and scientific features of any core ideology. To me, the ideology is such kind of thing, which can act for the perfect making of the system comprising human beings, society, nation, world and the whole ecology, where there is no presence of either partiality or biasness or prejudice or any kind of conceptual knots.
To the extent what I know, left or say the communism ideology basically was a political-economic ideology, borned out of an circumstantial environment, full of exploitation and struggle which latter on cemented its place over the ideological ground of the world.
During the18th &19th century the arrival of industrial revolution in Europe enabled the consolidation of the fifth factor of production, the enterpreneur class over the laborer class. The growing dominace of entrepreneur class over the laborers was same what it used to be seen in the activities of aristocrat class over the landless laborers class.
First Angles, then Marx followed by Lenin, the series of efforts enabled the great ideology of communism. The arrival of this ideology gave a great jolt to the existing capitalist ideology, particularly in Europe. The fundamentally this ideology which was related with economocs, actually set the tone of even the political ideology of the many countries. This ideology affected even the societies, literature, art and media in the many parts of the world. It consequently the capitalism led countries brought many more measures of labour welfare laws in their system. The champion of capitalist system, America which also listened the music of an extreme form of capitialism in terms of great depression of 1929. The great depression of 1929 was suppressed through new deal policy introduced by President Roosvelt. The new deal policy was actually a bunch of socialist measures which allowed US administratio to incur a huge amount of public investment in its economy and ultimately US managed its great depression.
Thus,in the contemporary arena, the out of control capitalist ideology ultimately came under the control and finally it got euqulibrium by the ideological stroke of communism. On the othe side, the ideology of communism which enabled formations of many government in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world, it completed its first phase very strenuously, but in the second phase it started its own set of exploitation. For example in the name of government control the bureaucracy emerged to be an ugly face of the system. In the name of labour welfare there came a culture of strikes and lockouts. In the name of dictatorship of proletriates, the democracy was being opposed. In the name of class struggle the political opponents were targeted by the ruling regimes and last but not the least, the human rights were strongly violated.
In this historical chronology, we witnessed that how both of the ideologies of left and right worked as a rival to each other and they limited themselves in their cotre of ideology and keeping out of the broad spectrum of the things and worked in an incomplete and imperfect manner. It is to be noted here that both of these ideologies were representing not only their political line, rather they were representing their identical economic, social, cultural, administrative, international line of ideas also. This is the reason these both ideologies consolidated their postion on social, political and international level.
On the basis of a neutral intellectual analysis, we also saw that how the left of today leaving aside the humanitarian ideology of struggle and exploitation and get involved in strengthen its faction, which were either based over its vote bank politics or over biased and illogical commitment to their ideology. The today's communism is more lenient to the cause of organized work force in comparison to unorganized one. As of now they were of the view that capitalist are the class enemy. So they never understood this point that in our system, condition of a small entrepreneur is even worse than an employee of a big company. They can not understand this fact that interest of a white collar employee and a blue collar employee can not be the same. These people condemn the instances of Hindu communalism, but they keep mum over the communalism of Islam which in fact is bigger form of communalism and has taken even a global shape. This perversion in their ideology is nothing rather it is their votebankism on the domestic front and if they endorsed the aggressor attitude of country like China who captured the land territory of India as well as it grabbed the Budhist Tibet. It is nothing rather it is their joining to the existing factionalism of international politics. That is why we still see in the communist ambience, the neo enterpreneurs are seen in a suspicion manner and neo burgeois corrupt bureaucrat are taken in respectful manner. It is equally true that in its rival ideology capitalism also, which has rather gone on the path of escapism.
The way in first half of twentieth century, the communism have had a moral victory over the ideology of capitalism, the same way at the fag end of twentieth century the capitalism got its moral victory over communism. We saw in the last decade of the 20th century, the USSR was deorganised, China had a major shift in its policy regimes and many socialist countries of the world have a bitter experience of fiasco of their socialist policies.
The matter of the fact is that these both ideologies have extreme kind of nature. They both can not provide good to the human untill unless they become ready to invite adequate and required changes in their attitude in time related, era related and country related manner. These both ideologies have a common conception of this that only adoption of extreme stance could market their forums and organizations, could conquer space and time in mass media and could picturize a clear demarcation line in the vote bank societies.
Perhaps we forget this point that composition of any ideology and its institutional outcome is not to be full proof for ever ; it require a complete overhauling and cleansing in it. The revolution for any new establishment necessitates further pro revolution after some passage of time. Apart from the politics and economy, the institution which was affected most by these both ideologies that was the institution of Religion. The prime propounder of communist ideology and intellectual giant of his contemporary arena, Karl Marx termed Religion, as an addiction of opium. In a way his statement was a big attack over the several blind deeds of some organized religions, but ultimately this attack brought a deep demarcation line between theist and atheist all over the world.
I am always of the view that religion and God, both is the seprate thing. Concept of God is just an evergoing search for the omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent force which rule the both conscious and unconscious universe, whereas religion (in organized form) was just like a shop created by some clever people who wanted to make a cloisture and so they got engaged in making followers same in a way political parties do this in order to increase their follower and members. What the Christian and Islam religions are doing right now all over the world; they are marketing their religions. In this game God is also being included, the worship sytem is also being included; the philosophy of life and death all are there.
We are of the view, following of a religion is a private affair and for the public domain, secularism is the best policy, which keeps the governance aloof from the controversial religious and its faith issue. But both these ideologies have converted secularism, in fact a tool of identiy based democratic politics. Actually in the debate of left vs. Right, we do not want to create a controversy of ideologies, rather we want to fully affirm this view that any ideology is not made for ever, it always require review and reformulation. It must always have a scope of self introspection, overt expression and its reasonability. We have witnessed the huge crisis and fiasco emerged out of left oriented polity, economy, society and culture and so on and in the same way we have also viewed the naked exposition of capitalism on various front from time to time. But these both extreme ideologies never accept and invite open minded approaches.
It is only the centrist approach which is an ultimate way to get a balance, conscient and middle point, which could always accept all good and always reject all bad, which is the best way for any ideology to work. This was the way which compelled Lord Budha to proceed on centrist path. He listned a clich from a lady that do not keep the cord of Veena loose, so that it can not create sound and do not keep its cord so tight, so that it get broken out. So the middle way is the best way. The long sustainability of the world solely depend on this ideological path, the middle path.
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